Your Government: Senate Republican Leadership team release Caucus priorities

• Return the Kicker as a check, returning $5,200 per household on average - LC 3881
• Freeze property taxes for Oregon seniors 67+ for primary residence - SJR 17
• Raise CAT tax coverage threshold to $5 million - SB 127
• Additional exemption against Oregon estate tax - SB 68
• Urge balanced budget amendment to United States Constitution - SJM 1
• Create a business-friendly environment to attract semiconductor industry, creating high paying family wage jobs

Human Dignity in Housing & Homelessness

• Support housing development goal of 36,000 units yearly
• Tax deduction for renting room(s) in taxpayer's primary residence - HB 3032
• Allow local governments to amend urban growth boundaries to include lands to be used for needed housing - SB 656
• Financing for infrastructure/predevelopment costs for moderate income housing - SB 534
• Expand affordability for Oregon renters with additional tax incentives - SB 435
• Ensure funding for mental health services are being disbursed effectively - SB 300
• Recriminalize possession/distribution of hard drugs i.e. Fentanyl - SB 735

Promoting Freedom & Prosperity for All Oregonians

• Require approval by majority of Senate of any reprieve, commutation, or pardon - SJR 11
• Durational limitations on declarations of emergency by Governor - SJR 14
• Require all executive clemency actions by Governor be initiated by application and follow specific procedures - SB 667
• Impeachment process for statewide elected executive branch officials - SJR 13
• State employees cannot be reimbursed for travel to/from Oregon when living outside of Oregon - LC 3697
• Protect free and fair elections

Modernizing Oregon's Education System, Empowering Parents & Students

• Increase virtual public charter school cap to 5% - SB 707
• Allow students to enroll in any public school - SB 259
• Curriculum transparency - HB 2628
• Nontraditional pathways to licensure for prospective career and technical education teachers - SB 677
• Pilot program to provide funding to school districts to increase access to schools by homeless students and improving academic achievement - SB 658

Reducing Violent Crime Threatening Our Communities

• Support Oregonians' 2nd Amendment rights
• Increase funding for school resource officers - SB 639, HB 2223
• Reclassify crime of Violent Felon in Possession of a Firearm as crime category 8 - SB 650
• Create crime of threatening to commit a terroristic act - SB 664
• Create crime of controlled substances homicide - SB 649
• Stricter sentencing for criminals whose assault causes life changing injury - SB 430
• Increase statute of limitations for rape crime to 20 years - LC 3892

Protecting Oregon's Farms, Fisheries, & Forests

• $50 million to Dept. of Forestry for increased forest managing operations in specified wildfire-prone counties - SB 653
• Require State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve/maintain low forest fuel load levels - SB 665
• Study rate impacts of implementing reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021) - SB 681
• Protect natural gas use in new or existing residential or commercial buildings - SB 647
• Remove requirement that State Forestry Department oversee development of statewide map of wildfire risk - SB 654
• Federal agencies to better prevent, mitigate, and suppress wildfires - SJM 3
• Ensure offshore wind energy development goes to local and regional communities while promoting electric grid reliability and resilience - SB 678
• Include forest land sequestration in greenhouse gas emissions calculations - SB 724
• Prioritize Oregon made/grown products, minimizing carbon footprint

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